Reviews for You Only Live Once

[ANTI-FLAGwarsucks]

I really wish you didn't do that.

To be honest, i liked the story line, and the gameplay, but i hate the fact that you can not play this game again. I get that the joke is that in life, you only have only life, as opossed to most video games, but you took it too far. It was funny at first seeing the news report, but it gets old fast. Please, start to make games that are worth playing. Maybe put a restart button on this one? That'd at least make it better, because otherwise i wont play this again. That's basically you're flaw in this game is that people will play it once and move on. I'm really not trying to be mean, but this wasn't very fun after that first time. I really wish you could've made an actual restart, because otherwise its annoying. I'm sure other people agree with me too, because this is basically a rip off.

Peace.

[Triarii]

That's QUITE ENOUGH out of you!

Alright, that's it... You had your fun and made your point with "Free Will - The Game" and I let it slip by, but this is just beyond the pale... It's not funny and it's not thought provoking, it's just pretentious, self-righteous and pompous beyond all possible belief...

First of all, this is not a "game", this is a flash author ramming both his retarded sense of humor and his downright obnoxious views on gaming down our innocent throats... This sort of "Forced Aesop" is one of the cardinal sins that any author, regardless of medium can make and not only does this ENTIRE FLASH revolves around, but it is quite possibly the single worst example of it ever created...

I won't bother going through each of the scores I usually give individually (since there isn't actually a game here to review), but I will briefly say that the graphics are marginally good at best, the sound is OK, with decent voice acting (but is yet another example of good voice acting not making up for an otherwise terrible flash), "style" would normally get zero points both because what gameplay that does exist is completely broken (i.e. cannot be reset) and because the way the flash force feeds us the author's message has no sense of "style" whatsoever and "gameplay" would, of course, also get a zero, since the game cannot actually be played...

I'm sorry mate, but as a game this Flash is atrocious, as a delivery vessel for your views it has all the style, subtlety and grace of a speeding mac truck and all the effectiveness of trying to inflict pain by whipping one's victim with a warm lettuce and as a comedy it completely falls flat, being not in the least bit humorous... And I can't think of any redeeming elements this flash has besides the voice acting and even that, given the evidence this flash as well as games like Red Moon and Vorago, seems to be more of a curse than a blessing...

Unless you fancy a few minutes of getting the flash author's nonsensical opinions shoved down your throat, save yourself the time and don't come ANYWHERE NEAR this flash!

raitendo responds:

Everybody is entitled to their own opinion - I don't expect everybody to like this game, but this whole.... "Oh Raitendo, I didn't like your game and now I will destroy you and your game with my angry words!!!!!" strikes me as a bit... let's say, misguided.

Also, your criticism wouldn't come across as much a mad man's ranting ("That's QUITE ENOUGH out of you!", uh, ok? calm down please) if you actually presented a single coherent argument WHY the game is bad. at least it obviously managed to stir a pretty strong emotional response out of you, I think that means I've accomplished something.

[thrashmetal13]

hey dude

no hard feelings but I know how to fuck your game. just play it on mozilla firefox and go to configure-then deny the ability of the site to keep info from you.then,you can play as many times as you want.Oh and by the way,don't remark this anj useless review only because ''the game is moral'' or ''this guy thinks outside the box'' you see,common people say the think outside the box just to seem important,I really think with my own thought patterns,I just opened my eyes to see stuff and considre them the WAY I WANT,NOT AS THE SOCIETY WANTS ME TOO,like being an artistic asshole,ok?

[LizardonX]

Lame

Stupid. I belive in reicarnation so I belive we all live forever. And this game just takes NOT beliving that into a stupid game BTW what is the point of the all the hearts if you only get one?

[MlanRecords]

just call it yolo